Hello guys,
since I have a problem to connectmy RH9 machine through W2000 machine to Internet, would anybody tell me how to find a solution.
Well, asking here is a good way to start. But if you are using a Win2K host as your router, your problems are more likely to require Windows than Linux expertise, so you might want to look for a Win2K support list as well as a Linux one. Some people here have some familiarity with one or another version of WIndows, but this really is not the list to turn to for help configuring a Windows router.
As to the possible Linux side of the problem, a good start would be to report here the following:
1. Describe the actual problem you are having. What do you try and what error (or other failure) do you see)?
2. Provide this information about the configuration of the Linux host:
complete, unedited output of "ifconfig -a"
complete, unedited output of "netstat -nr"
how you are assigning the Linux host its IP address and routing table (static? dhcp? something else?)
3. Describe the physical setup. How does the Linux host communicate with the Win2K host? How does the Win2K host communicate with the Internet? Does the WIn2K hot have 1 or 2 physical interfaces? 1 or 2 logical interfaces (IP addresses)?
4. Does the Linux host have a real (routable) IP address or a private (RFC1918) IP address that requires the Win2K host to NAT the Linux host's connection to the Internet? (The answer to #2 should indicate this, but it always pays to double check this one, I've found.) If the second, do you have the Win2K system set up properly both to route and to NAT (no, I don't know Win2K well enough to tell you how to do this)?
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